Improvement in collar-clasps



PATENT OEEICE.

VALENTINE FOGERTY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLLAR-CLASPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43.190, dated June 2l,1864.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, VALENTINE FOGEE'IY, a resident of Boston, in thecounty of Suffolk and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful Collar-Clasp 5 `and I do hereby declare the same to be fullydescribed in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, ot' which-- Figure l is a front View, and Fig. 2an edge View, of the clasp asit appears when open. Fig. 3 is an edgeview of it as closed.

My invention is for the purpose of attaching a collar to a shirt.

In 4the said drawings, A denotes a button, to whose shank, a, a plate,B, is fastened, and projects dowdward at a right angle to such shank. Tothe lower end of the plate B a plate or flap, C, is hinged, so as to becapable ot' being turned from the position represented in Fig. 2 to thatrepresented in Fig. 3. A small eye or hole, b, is made through the plateG, and when the plate C is turned up into the position exhibited in Fig.3 such eye closes on or receives a stud, I), (projecting from the pla'eB in extension of or line with the shank a,) which, iu order to maintainthe part O in engagement with it sufficiently for the purposes requiredmay be furcated or split, and formed as shown in the drawings.

In the use of the collar-clasp the button A is to be inserted inbuttonholes made in the neckbaud ot' the shirt, or the clasp is to bebuttoned to the neckband by means of the button A. Next, the collarshould be arranged in place around the neck ot' the shirt- 'band andhave its ends buttoned on the stud VALENTINE EoeEETY.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, JE.

